tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post6794287568067502321..comments2024-03-24T21:25:13.059-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Ron Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-67927695235990121172009-09-30T18:44:24.002-07:002009-09-30T18:44:24.002-07:00Jason: My mistake not putting up the variable and ...Jason: My mistake not putting up the variable and the n's. I used ATTEND so the sample sizes are a bit better: Buddhist 83, Hindu 37, Other Eastern 11, and American Indian 12. But your points are well-taken.Ron Guhnamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-85185013310446512442009-09-30T17:35:33.175-07:002009-09-30T17:35:33.175-07:00I don't like this. The sample size for the rel...I don't like this. The sample size for the religious attendance question (RELACTIV) is 24 for Hindu, 5 for Other Eastern, and 5 for Native American.<br /><br />For RELPERSN ("do you consider yourself a religious person" 1-4). The relationship between religiousness and conservatism is .17 for Christians (N=4,730), .25 for Jews (112), and .24 for Hindus (17). Ns are inappropriate for the other two.<br /><br />A few more points:<br /><br />1) Sample sizes are not high for exotic religions in the GSS, and a lot of these people are just educated white liberals high in openness to experience, not representative members of these religions.<br /><br />2) Minority ethnic status affects the association, since "traditional" people are more religious as well as more ethnically engaged. Being ethnically engaged in America means being more liberal for everyone but white people.<br /><br />So the association between religiousness and self-identified conservatism is .29 for whites, .07 for blacks, and .13 for "other race".<br /><br />3) While there are probably other exceptions due to special circumstances, authoritarianism, conservatism, and religiousness appear to <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/m65311w8r332257p/" rel="nofollow">form a higher order factor</a> Thomas Bouchard calls Traditionalism.Jason Malloyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04855482153162314172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-24272329257376579622009-09-30T10:10:30.983-07:002009-09-30T10:10:30.983-07:00Jokah Macpherson said...
I am guessing the devout ...<b>Jokah Macpherson said...</b><br /><i>I am guessing the devout Muslims tend conservative in the same way that blacks do because I don't remember ever seeing Muslim groups out marching to show their support for George W. Bush.</i><br /><br />George W. Bush won the Muslim vote in the 2000 Presidential elections. It was the War on Terror that turned Muslims voters away from the Republican Party.<br /><br />See: <a href="http://www.meforum.org/13/how-did-muslims-vote-in-2000" rel="nofollow">How Did Muslims Vote in 2000?</a> by Alexander Rose.<br /><br />B.B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-11361646299832566752009-09-30T02:21:01.629-07:002009-09-30T02:21:01.629-07:00Fascinating - more like this please!Fascinating - more like this please!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-46726491045806094292009-09-29T20:54:19.447-07:002009-09-29T20:54:19.447-07:00I always knew the Great Manitou was a leftyI always knew the Great Manitou was a leftyUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12413451070928090574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-43181740273907064102009-09-29T18:54:13.313-07:002009-09-29T18:54:13.313-07:00I am guessing the devout Muslims tend conservative...I am guessing the devout Muslims tend conservative in the same way that blacks do because I don't remember ever seeing Muslim groups out marching to show their support for George W. Bush.<br /><br />I wonder if sin has anything to do with the conservative tendencies of Western religion practitioners. My knowledge of Eastern religions is limited but I get the sense that the concept of personal sin in the material world has a less central place in their theologies.Jokah Macphersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04185675633464395897noreply@blogger.com